KUCHING – The search-and-rescue team working on the vessel MV Tung Sung that capsized near Pulau Burung in Sebuyau, around 103km from here, has managed to recover another body yesterday, the fifth victim killed in the incident discovered so far.
Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency Sarawak director Zin Azman Md Yunus said the body was found at around 12.14pm in the cabin of the ship that was refloated yesterday evening.
“The body was brought to the Sebuyau Sarawak River Board jetty before being handed over to police and taken to Sarawak General Hospital for identification and further investigation,” he said in a statement last night.
Search efforts have been called off and will resume if there are new leads, he said, as there are no new indications regarding the three other victims reported to be onboard the ship during the incident that occurred at 11pm, July 19.
The bodies of four other crew members were found on Saturday but have yet to be identified. A total of eight crew members, 20 to 52, were reported to be missing after the ship capsized.
Three of them are locals from Sibu, known as Chieng Siew Ngiek, Wong Hua Wu, and Stimba Anak Chuit; Myanmar nationals That Min July, Ye Lin Htet, Hla Win Tun, Tun Lin Oo, and an Indonesian, Lido Ali Purwanto. – Bernama, August 1, 2023
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